The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-12-10
CURRENT TOPICS.


TuERr is q growing demand FOR Ameri'
can apples in England.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND drinks wine at
dinner, very sparingly.
GEORGIA critic on a homely bride: "Her
face would wean calf"
THE postmaster at Winterport, lie, is
appropriately named Snow.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is to take lessons
in horseback riding this winter.
SIXTY thousand orange trees are on
their way from Japan to California.
WASHINGTON has one hundred and forty
miles of streets with shade trees on both
sides.
THERE are indications of a renewal of
the agitation in favor OF government tel
egraph.
THERE are millions of wild geese in Da-
kota, this season, attracted by the numer-
ous lakes.
THE outlook for the Florida orange crop,
both as to supply and demand, is said to
be very good.
THERE has been complete reconciliation
between the Empress Eugene and Prince
Victor Napoleon.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is greatly liked by her
house-servants, because OF her kindly and
gracious manner.
IT is said to cost fifty dollars to place n
carcass of Chicago dressed beef in the
markets of London.
BEFORE the close of the year every coun-
ty in Kansas will have completed line OF
railroad within it's limits.
FouR little girls acted as pall-bearers at
the burial OF one of their youthful play
mates in Fond du Lac Wis.
1T is said that the President sits down
three times day to one Of the best served
private tables in Washington.
A New YoRK jury has decided that the
keeper of a bucket-shop is the keeper of a
gambling-house within the legal deiini
tion.
GREAT BRITAIN, the largest Empire in
the world, comprises s $50, 65S square miles,
more than Il sixth part of the surface of the
globe
HEAVY rains have so advanced the
ripening of the coffee berry in Mexico
that the crop will be gathered earlier than
usual.
ISABELLA, Kan, contains among its in
habitants "Doc'' Blodgett, Who was born
IN block house, i'll 1880, where Cincinnati
IS now.
IMMENSE numbers of fruit trees are be.
ing planted in Oregon and Washington
Territory. They are chiefly pruncs and
Bartlett pears.
INSCRIPTIONS sons-in-law are uncom.
Portable creatures for man to have about,
fact of which President Grcvy is becom-
ing sorely convinced.
The superintendent Of the Philadelphia
Mint expresses surprise at the steady de.
mand for one cent pieces which began
about eight months ago.
RUNAWAY couple seated on the back Of
small mule rode up to the court house at
Milton, Fla, the other day, and were mar
ried by the county judge.
ACoLoRED woman at Jacksonville, Fla,
has a baby which is half black and half
white. One side of its face is black as a
coal and the other side white.
BIZ the marriage of Senator Hawley the
number of widowers in the upper house OF
Congress is reduced to three. They are
Senators Gibson, Voorhees, and Beck
MORE than half of the area of Maine la
north of the northern line of New Hanp.
shire and Vermont. More than half of
Maine is still an unsettled wilderness.
DURING the last seven months sl45, 5,OOO,.
600 of foreign capital have come into the
United States. There is no other country
in the world of which like thing can bo
said.
The total number OF miles Travelled in
the whole United States mail service
during the past year was go, ia, ,065, which
was an increase Of 5,016,7 ,72S miles over last
year.
THERE were recently taken from one OF
the mounds near the Ohio river two silver
crosses and thirty silver shoe buckles, the
latter bearing the French crown and date
of 1880.
THE former residents of Ohio, now living
In Topeka, Kan, have organized society
and adopted for a motto, ''The sun of Ohio
never shone on the face of an ugly
woman.''
JACQUES WIsHLER, the engraver who
made nearly all the plates from which the
bonds and money of the Confederate States
were printed, is dead at his home in Cam
den, N. j.
PETROLEUM is being found in increasing
quantities all over the islands of the
Dutch East Indias, particularly in Java.
Rich wells have also been discovered in
Eastern Java.
FARMERS around Whatcom, Mon., com.
plain that they are unable to protect them
selves against the hordes Of deer and ante
lOpe which ravage their orchards and de-
stroy their grain fields.
HUsKING corn by means Of a threshing
machine is the new agricultural wrinkle,
and it is getting to be very popular in some
parts Of the west. The corn is husked and
Shelled ut the same time.
THERE is a good prospect now that there
will be an enthusiastic centennial celebra-
ton in New York City in 1889 Of the in
auguration of George Washington as first
President of the United States.
M. BLANcHET, in his recent work on the
Panama Canal, states that tho canal has
already cost over 10000 lives, and it is be-
leved, by careful observers, that his esti-
mate is no exaggeration Of the truth.
''No MAN." says prominent PhiladeL-
phia physician, who is an enthusiastic veg
etarian, "who eats pound of maccaroni,
daily, and the balance of whose food is of
kindred nature, will ever become drunk
ard"
IT Is estimated that during the coming
three months the Southern people will re.
ceive about 75,0O0,O00 In payment for
their cotton crop, OF which amount $780,
100000 will be surplus available for rein.
vestment.
The worlds supply Of red cedar used In
the manufacture OF lead pencils is derived
from the swamps Of Cedar Key, Fla. The
product Of the mills there is shipped not